Trying something new this morning. Weekday digests are going to be a limited selection of "news you can use". I'll save the opinion pieces and longer reads for a weekend edition. Let me know if this works better for you.

Making Instagram Stories work for you

Good piece from Jacob over at my pals journalism.co.uk, detailing how Francesco (a former student - this is a slightly nepotistic digest, sorry. It's not my fault that half of the UK's audience engagement experts were once my students… 😇) goes about experimenting and refining their strategy for using Stories.

What you need to know: Experimentation is not enough alone: you need sensible measures to understand what is working and what isn't.

The end of "OK, Boomer" on Twitter?

What you need to know: Twitter has changed its rules to ban language that dehumanizes people on the basis of their age, disability or disease status. Be careful of your language around these topics, even if only joking.

This second one will only impact a few of you, but worth knowing, if you're on WordPress.

What you need to know: several SEO-centric WordPress plugins seem to have bugs. Keep your plugins as updated as you can. And if you're seeing a drop in search traffic, check if any of these bugs apply to you…

Overwhelmed by newsletters?

One of the reasons I've slightly modified this format, is that I've had feedback that people are already feeling over-whelmed by information. A digest should be more, well, digested. However, here's another approach:

An engaged journalism event

I've always enjoyed the Digital Editors network events, even though it's nearly five years since I managed to get to one. (I remember chatting to an attendee about the forthcoming birth of my second child… and she's got her fifth birthday soon.)

I'll be at this one, as they've got some great people on board, including Beth Ashton, a former student who is now leading the digital engagement at The Telegraph, and Nick Petrie from The Times.